Frederick Lewis Donaldson Quotes

“The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”

“Even Mahatma Gandhi - hardly a comfortable character - always wore a bowler hat with his loin cloth when practising as a barrister in London.”

“Avarice is patriotic!”

“Later the place was as deserted as Malcolm Muggeridge's Christmas party of fellow intellectuals.”

“Philip. I have never been outside of England. I've never even been to London. Do you know what I would give for your experiences? How could you possibly think you would bore me?" He didn't answer, but there was such a look of delight in his eyes that I had to ask, "Why are you looking at me like that?" "You called me Philip. For the first time.”

“King- Hamilton, Judge Alan ( b 1900 )'...I think he erred on the side of severity when he gave Janie Jones, the notorious madame, seven years after the jury had acquitted her'. 'Well, these things are relative of course. It all depends on what you've been acquitted of. Miss Jones was innocent of a very serious offence.”

“Do not let anyone else's expectations direct the course of your life. I have discovered happiness in being true to who I am.”

“Each to their own reality”

“The sensation I had experienced vanished like smoke from a snuffed candlem, leaving behind wisps of nameless longing.”

“The sensation Ihad experienced vanished like smoke from a snuffed candle, leaving behind wisps of namelesslonging.”